this morning i came into work a little late because i finished up xenocide. i couldn’t put it down so close to the end.

i didn’t remember what i was doing tonight until i came to work. oh ya, the photography club meeting. we’ll see how that is. then an after-work bbq tomorrow. next tuesday is my one year anniversary here at work. then wednesday i’m seeing phantom of the opera. the following tuesday is a team off-site at city beach in fremont.

darkroom work tonight. did 16×20 prints. it’s tiring. and now they own my living room.

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“anyways, the universe now seems to be constant in time while it’s expanding in space. but if you wanted to, you could just as easily see it as a constant size but changing in time. the speed of light is slowing down so that it takes longer to get from one place to another, only we can’t tell that it’s slowing down because everything else slows down exactly relative to the speed of light.. you see? it’s all a matter of perspective.”

this weekend was sorta blah. i did take a little field trip to the san jose mission in fremont for shooting some film. went to a picnic on saturday. i suspect another blah week coming up. i should spend time on printing.

above is a self portrait; me and my kiev.

“not much is known
of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report
that fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought,
though brothers, for a hindu throne.

their mother cried
for no one really likes their offspring fighting to the death
she begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath
but sure enough one brother died
sad beyond belief
she told her winning son
i can’t forgive this evil thing you’ve done.”

he tried to explain
how things had really been
but he tried in vain
no words of his would satisfy the queen.

and so he asked the wisest men he knew
the way to lessen her distress
they told him he’d be pretty certain to impress
by using model soldiers on
a chequered board to show it was his brother’s fault
they thus invented chess.”

yesterday on my way to shoreline park, i was thinking about what i like about red filters. not only what it does for the image, but looking through it. seeing the world through a deep red filter forces me ot think in black and white. it takes away all the color of what i see. and photography itself. this morning on my way into work i thought about photography. looking through the lens of my camera, everything else just seems to fade away. color. things around me. sound. maybe that’s what draws me to photography– the stillness, the quietness of an image. how the world is completely frozen in time with all the vision and none of the noise. i wonder if deaf people appreciate or relate to photography more easily. in any case, i like it. may i always be able to enjoy and share special times and places of this beautiful world– one thousandth of a second at a time.

“i never use a capital G for god….not religious in that fashion. I’ve taken to using a capital U for Universe.”

— jose, another photographer friend of mine

i hate it when you’re in a chat and you’re ignored in the conversation, then when you say you’re thinkin about taking off, the guy you want to chat with says bye!!! to you in the chat.